How to start Prisma with `distroless/nodejs22-debian12` image?

[siddjellali]

Hi team,

I'm currently building a Docker image using gcr.io/distroless/nodejs22-debian12:nonroot as the base for the production stage. Here's the relevant part of the Dockerfile:

FROM gcr.io/distroless/nodejs22-debian12:nonroot AS production

WORKDIR /app

COPY --from=build /app/dist ./dist
COPY --from=build /app/.env .env
COPY --from=build /app/node_modules ./node_modules

CMD ["dist/src/main", ";prisma migrate deploy; prisma db seed"]

I'm trying to understand:
Is it possible to run Prisma commands (e.g., prisma migrate deploy, prisma db seed) in a distroless image?
If so, how should I properly structure the CMD or ENTRYPOINT to support this?
Are there any best practices or recommendations to achieve this cleanly?

Any guidance or examples would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance 🙏

[enkhjile]

@siddjellali
Hello, you can't invoke prisma commands in distroless images because by default it does not have shells etc and nodejs image's entrypoint is node. So you should to prisma commands in build step like this (it's an example Dockefile I use for one of my projects)

FROM node:22-bullseye AS base

FROM base AS deps
WORKDIR /deps

COPY package.json pnpm-lock.yaml ./
RUN corepack enable pnpm && pnpm i --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts

FROM base AS build
WORKDIR /build

COPY --from=deps /deps/node_modules ./node_modules
COPY . .

RUN corepack enable pnpm && pnpm prisma generate && pnpm build

FROM gcr.io/distroless/nodejs22-debian12:nonroot
WORKDIR /app

USER nonroot

COPY --from=build /build/.output ./output

ENV NODE_ENV=production
ENV HOSTNAME=0.0.0.0
ENV PORT=3000

EXPOSE 3000

CMD ["output/server/index.mjs"]